Quebec Winter Caribou Hunting
11-12-2007, 08:16 AM
#1341
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 2,175
RE: Quebec Winter Caribou Hunting
Liquidorange; It's all about timing. I have gone and only seen a few animals a day. I have gone and seen a hundred a day. Then there are those miracle times, when I have been in a sea of caribou and have easily seen ten thousand in a day. No one can predict the timing. No one can predict the weather, which can have a dramatic impact on the caribou.
11-12-2007, 10:25 AM
#1342
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 460
RE: Quebec Winter Caribou Hunting
I agree with how it has all been in the past 3-4 years. Believe me -whenyou hitthe migration you will see 5-10K animals pass by you as you sit and watch. The ground looks10snow groomerswent by side by side and it is truely amazing.
Migration has been the problem and this is why I like this years movement so much - it is much like yearspast when youcould see thousands. My group has been going since 1998 andseeingthe videos of LA1 and Laforge is what go me going.The past3 yearseveryone has been askingwhere arethe animalsand it is all due to the westerly migration.While we are all wondering why this is happening - global warming, herd size, Kisk planting a lodge right in the main path,all have nothign to do with it. The indians tellme that the animals use the same migration trails they have used for thousands of years - problem being that they have many different routes they use dependingon food. These trails are anywhere from Lat -68 to the bayand as you can see from todays map, they are hugging Caniapiscau and will be turning right down theLA2Valley, justlike many times before.
You put yourself there in aweek and you will see steady animal for 20 days straight comming through, hooking back up and around all looking for food. How would an 850K animal migration look? It is am amazing site and we should all thank the good Lord we have the money, the time and heatlh to get up top and see this marvel for ourselves.
Happy hunting and I hope you are going up in the next 20 days or so....
Migration has been the problem and this is why I like this years movement so much - it is much like yearspast when youcould see thousands. My group has been going since 1998 andseeingthe videos of LA1 and Laforge is what go me going.The past3 yearseveryone has been askingwhere arethe animalsand it is all due to the westerly migration.While we are all wondering why this is happening - global warming, herd size, Kisk planting a lodge right in the main path,all have nothign to do with it. The indians tellme that the animals use the same migration trails they have used for thousands of years - problem being that they have many different routes they use dependingon food. These trails are anywhere from Lat -68 to the bayand as you can see from todays map, they are hugging Caniapiscau and will be turning right down theLA2Valley, justlike many times before.
You put yourself there in aweek and you will see steady animal for 20 days straight comming through, hooking back up and around all looking for food. How would an 850K animal migration look? It is am amazing site and we should all thank the good Lord we have the money, the time and heatlh to get up top and see this marvel for ourselves.
Happy hunting and I hope you are going up in the next 20 days or so....
11-12-2007, 01:14 PM
#1344
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 1
RE: Quebec Winter Caribou Hunting
Hi Guys:
I hunted up a Laforge 1 last year for the first time and we did very well, it appears that the bulk of the caribou herd will be hitting the trans taiga well east ofMirage on the Trans Taigabetween the 550 and 660km mark. The question I have is can you drive all the way to the end of the road if need be ordoes the winter maintenance stop at some point. Can you also drive north to Laforge 2 or do you need a skidoo. Given the currentmap would you recommend just a pickup truckor do you think people should bring snow machines.
I hunted up a Laforge 1 last year for the first time and we did very well, it appears that the bulk of the caribou herd will be hitting the trans taiga well east ofMirage on the Trans Taigabetween the 550 and 660km mark. The question I have is can you drive all the way to the end of the road if need be ordoes the winter maintenance stop at some point. Can you also drive north to Laforge 2 or do you need a skidoo. Given the currentmap would you recommend just a pickup truckor do you think people should bring snow machines.
11-12-2007, 05:38 PM
#1345
Fork Horn
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Linwood, Michigan
Posts: 168
RE: Quebec Winter Caribou Hunting
Liquid-O is right on. I've been giong since 2000 and have seen it go in many different directions with last year being the most extreme. We have hunted as far east as K520 and all the way to the end of the road past Kisk. When they are moving through you can literally sit and watch them for hours. One time we watched from above LA1 dam while they came across the res. for hours. Several thousand animals crossed that day. We sat and watched and took pictures and video since we had filled our tags the day before. Hopefully they will spread out and move through in a gradual migration instead of all at once and be done in ten days.
11-12-2007, 07:26 PM
#1346
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: central NY
Posts: 127
RE: Quebec Winter Caribou Hunting
The herd is bunched up very tight. Too tightly in my opinion. Hope they stall and start to string out before crossing the road. The weather forecast is for mild temps early this week steadily dropping to frigid temps for the next two weeks.